Bloomberg launches The Bulletin for its mobile app

Bloomberg Media’s innovation lab BHIVE has rolled out The Bulletin on its mobile application. The Bulletin provides a summary of the top three stories of the moment, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to generate a single sentence summary of the most important articles within Bloomberg’s global news network. The list refreshes each time […]

“Business Insider Today” launches on Facebook

“Business Insider Today,” a daily business news program created for Facebook Watch, will launch later on Monday. The show features business news and digital storytelling. The premiere of Business Insider Today streams live today at 5 p.m. ET on Facebook. Business Insider founder Henry Blodget will be one of the anchors, as will Sara Silverstein. They […]

Why Quartz is pushing ahead with its chatbot

Tim Peterson of Digiday writes about why business news site Quartz is continuing its chatbot while other media organizations have shut theirs down. Peterson writes, “One publisher that’s stayed committed to bots is Quartz. In 2016, it launched a mobile app through which people would primarily access its articles through an in-app chatbot. Later that year, it […]

The Financial Times has created an audience mapping tool

The Financial Times is hoping to boost repeat advertising business with a new audience mapping tool that makes it easier for its advertisers to reach audiences across print, online and the FT app, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “The tool was developed over the past 15 months by a team of about 10 […]

Yahoo Finance preps all-day video network

Yahoo Finance is launching a full-day live video streaming network by the end of the year, report Sarah Fischer and Dan Primack of Axios. Fischer and Primack report, “The network will include 8-hours of live market and global financial news updates, which would make it a rival to the new digital streaming business network Cheddar […]

Reuters launches app for business professionals

Reuters has launched a new app that focuses on “utility” to help business professionals “make better decisions,” reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione writes, “The app focuses on topic-based feeds. Reuters believes it will give business professionals fast and relevant information to help inform their decisions across industries, interests, markets and countries. “The emphasis on this […]

Forbes new CMS uses artificial intelligence

Forbes introduced a new content management system last week with its website redesign that uses artificial intelligence, reports Kayleigh Barber of Folio. Barber writes, “However, it’s the AI element that Zalatimo expects the writers and contributors to be most excited about. “‘Having tools that are leveraging the wealth of insights and expertise as publishers and as editors […]

Bloomberg launching “At What Cost?” show on Facebook Watch

Bloomberg will debut later this month a new weekly show “At What Cost?,” on Facebook Watch. “At What Cost?” aims to take the week’s biggest headlines and explains how they will impact consumers, their finances and their future. “At What Cost?” is Bloomberg’s first series exclusive to the Facebook Watch platform. The show will be […]

Wired has launched a streaming channel

Wired has launched its first streaming channel to reach people who are spending more time in over-the-top video environments, reports Sahil Patel of Digiday. Patel writes, “Launched on July 1, Wired’s streaming channel is available on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV. The service will also launch on Roku in the next week, the publisher […]

“Marketplace” puts “Make me Smart” on Amazon’s Alexa

Business radio news show “Marketplace” has put its “Make Me Smart” podcast on Amazon’s Alexa, its first foray into the technology. Once the skill is enabled, listeners can ask “Alexa, make me smart!” to hear podcast hosts Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood explain the economy, pop culture, tech and current events. “Thirty years’ expertise and […]